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Banks County Gazette.
VOL. III.—NO. 18.
THE COMING CLIMAX.
WHAT WILL BE THE RE
SULT?
Reform tlie Watchword of the
Toiling' Millions of Wealth
Producers.
There is one of the greatest revo
lutions impending that the world lias
ever witnessed.
It will affect the interest and de
cide the destinies of millions.
For a long time the cloud has been
gathering and now the gusts of wind
are beginning to sweep by, fortelling
of a mighty storm.
This storm is already hovering over
many parts of the country. After it
has passed, may we have a beautiful
calm ?
There is one of the greatest reform
ations going on in this country that
the world has ever witnessed. A re
formation that proposes justice and
equity. It has been going on for
several years, gathering men-under
the folds of its banner.
Revolutions and reformations go
band in hand. The' revolution of
1775, which resulted in the separa
tion of the colonies from the crown
of Britain ended in a reformation,
■which promised free government.
Our independence was gained after
years of toil, hardships, and struggles
for liberty. Thousands of valiant
soldiers laid down their lives on
scores of bloody battle-fields in de
fense of home and country.
Ghastly did the battle-fields a; pear
robed in hurror, when the goddess of
liberty first smiled upon the homo of
the brave and the land of the free; hut
independence was won at a fearful
cost. After American liberty was
gained the people were joyous and
happy that they had thrown off the
yoke of tyranny and oppression. They
had proved their prowess by an un
flinching regard for principle and an
unceasing demand for their rights.
They came out victors, crowned with
honor and respect, as brave and as
ready for the fray, as when the tocsin
of alarm was first sounded.
For many years after the declara
tion of independence we had a com
paratively pure government. The
people would have l>een happy and
contented had it not have been for
the excessive taxation to which they
were subjected to liquidate the debt
which had been contracted with Eng
land during the war.
Our law makers in congress, instead
of giving the people money, must bor
row credit of foreign nations at a
heavy rate of interest, which only
taxes tlie people more without remov
ing the evil. But the Americans are
a people of indomitable energy, \vith
push and grit; they flourish and pros
per to some extent even under the
most adverse circumstances. Towns
sprung up as if by tnagic, railroads
were built and civilization began his
westward march; the wilderness was
changed to fertile fields, and deserts
were changed to oases. We were
beginning to prosper; money was
plentiful, labor was receiving just re
wards. Capital gets uneasy and goes
into a conspiracy. Change is the
law of nature and we were the partic
ipants of the results in the change as
made by hankers, demonitizers, gold
hugs, and such others as were charm
ed by Ernest Seyd’s British gold.
Silver was demonetized, the currency
was contracted, greenbacks were
burned, debts were expanded and
wages decreased until the present
state of affairs w as brought about.
What is the result of such a policy ?
The people are demanding their
rights. The nation is lioing shook
from center to circumference by a
revolution. The climax is just ahead.
The laboring masses have determined
to throw off the yoke of tyranny and
oppression. They are decendents of
the men who fought the war for inde
pendence; they have inherited the
valor of their patriotic fathers; , they
are men of boue and sinew, of cour
age and devotion; men who dare do
right and leave the issue with God.
They are in a jutt cause; their
cause is one that affects immortal
souls and imperishable manhood and
womanhood. Will they triumph is
the great question of the day.
Truth will prevail, and justice and
right shall not be defeated always.
Our forefathers fought for our liber
ty, and shall we let the gift lie snatch
ed away from us ? Shall we suffer
the galling chains of slavery to bind
us? Shall we bow in shame to king
mammon ? No, never! The climax
is just ahead when we shall reclaim
our freedom. W. I*. Neal.
Modem Oratory.
“Oratory is by no means a lost art.
but the power to address vast audi
enoes properly is exceedingly rare,”
said Tyler A. Cowton. ‘ ‘Now, nil ora
tion that cannot be heard by an en
tire audience is worse than labor
wasted. In the golden ago of Ore
cum oratory speakers addressed -en
tire armies, and, if we are to believe
the historians, did so successfully.
They trained their voices for just
such occasions, and the result was
that they possessed the lungs of a
Stentor and tlieir thoughts were writ
ten in thunder. One Greek orator,
we are told, used to exercise his
voice on the seacoast during storms
and could make himself understood
at a considerable distance despite the
roar of the wind and the pounding
of the breakers.
“It is a pity that modern orators do
not take like pains to fit themselves
for their labors instead of popping
up with penny iVtii.dle voices and
performing occult paritomin.es to the
disgust of re vend thousand people.
The gestures and grimaces of nine
tenths rtf our modern orators are so
clumsy and ill timed that no man
of woman born ran divine their
thoughts from their dumb show.”—
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
About lluji'ln.
The head of the true Rhinelander
is wide at the temples; if the Wit is
j the exact length, ;u eases out of
j ten it has to be stretched sideways
| in order to make it fit. English heads
are wide, hut not so pronounced as
those of Ge: man:;. There is more of
a “sliding reale” with them as to the
relative length and breadth. The Cel
tic head is almost invariably round
or oval and without pronounced
phrenological ‘ ‘bumps. ”
For general smoothness of the
cranial pretube ranee the Italian
comes next to the Celts, either of the
two b .ding the classic Greeks in that
respect. Odd as it may seem, an at
j ourists declare that' the Turkish skull
I is almost identical in shape, size, etc.,
with that of the enlightened Nine
teenth century inhabitant of the
United States.—Chicago Tribune.
Tengile C.**t iron.
Experiments with malleable cast
iron by the admiralty of Sebastopol,
Russia, have been successful. A
trial bar, boated to red heat, was
folded anil refolded several times in
j succession, and at the end only one
I scarcely perceptible crack showed.
• Another bar that was folded cold
under hydraulic pressure broke after
taking a persistent curve. A third
bar, heated to cherry red, could be
forged and lengthened into strips.
Its tensile strength was almost equal
to that of ordinary Siemens Martin,
steel. —New York Sun.
Two Offerings,
I was somewhat disconcerted one
Sunday, when the vicar’s Easter of
ferings were being collected, by a
mad woman who brought a basket
of fish which she insisted on person
ally offering at the altar. She was
not such a pleasant person to deal
with as a colonial farmer I was once
told of by a friend wh ) looked very
much distressed at passing tbQ plate
on a similar occasion, hut explained
his apparent shortcoming by re
marking in a loud aside, “You'll find
a pie on the vestry table.” —Comliill
Magazine.
The Prayer Test.
The story of a little girl who want
ed a goat and prayed for it in the
following manner voices a common
sentiment nowadays in regard to
prayer: “Oh, Lord, I want a goat
and have told you so a great many
times. Now, 1 am going to say it
just once more, and if in the morn
ing i don’t see the goat—well, I
shan't be mad at you exactly, but I
certainly shan't be pleased!” —Mil-
waukee News.
The manner in which the reform
press criticises the news-gatheing and
reports of the associated pres is
sometimes deemed too severe. But
it is a fact known to others as well as
to reform press editors that the daily
press reports are sent out by associa
tions owned and controlled by rnotiop-
HOMER, BANKS COUNTY, GEORGIA: SEPTEMBER (>, 181)2.
olist, over wires owned and controlled
by the arch-monopolist of the country,
and that news from these sources is
manufactured, colored, suppressed, or
otherwise manipulated. An evidence
in point is the almost total silence of
the plutocratic press concerning the
great and enthusiastic meetings of the
people’s party in the west and south.
The ignorance and misinformation of
many a man who does not desire to
be unjust is traceable directly to this
source. “The conspiracy of silence”
has worked well for a long time.
Many people begin to see a rid under
stand it. It is a knowledge that- will
lead to wisdom at last. No republic
can afford to let one class of citizens
monopolize its telegraph facilities.
Nationalize the railroads and tele
graphs.—The Vanguard, Chicago.
DANGEI-m OF LONG WALKS.
Too Much rpijpstrlan Kiteroise Makes
People Dali, Crons and Thin.
Few persons are aware that violent
pedestrian exercise, by generating
more carbonic aejd than the lungs
can conveniently let off, tills the sys
tem with poison and stiffens the
muscles. It is for this reason very
dangerous if the heart is weak. The
professional pedestrian is hardly ever
lithe, whereas the equestrian is grace
ful because he takes exercise without
filling his blood with the poison 1
have just named, the immediate ef
fect of which is shortness of breath,
sometimes with a stitch in the loft
Side,
Cyclists make journeys of hun
dreds of miles without getting used
up. This is because the lung's ate
not overstrained as in, say, a long,
quick walk or pedestrian race. Al
pine climbling is worse than run
ning. It lu.-s been noticed that Al
pine climber ', whose forbears were
not time out of mind Switzers, begin
to break down after eight or nine
seasons of mountaineering aud age
prematurely.
1 am glad to know this, because I
care little for mountain scenery and
feel as if in jail when Alp rises above
Alp around me. The strong sunlight
from dawn io dusk and the simple
and reposeful horizon of the plain
lire.far more congenial to me than
the patchy lights and chillingly deep
shadows of mountains.
Ladies.it also occurs.'te me, may
be interested to know that a muddy
complexion is often a consequence of
violent clambering of hills, the blood
losing, when overcharged with car
bonic acid, its ruddy glow and the
skin delicacy in trying to aid in
working till' the poison. Soft, clear
complexions are much more common
in “rolling” countries than in high
lands. The Swedish women have in
this respect a great advantage over
the Norwegian, and so far as I can
judge from personal observation the
Ayrshire girls have more to be proud
of tlum the highland lasses.
Those who go in for pedesstrianisin
and lawn tennis should carefully
drill tlieir breathing organs to keep
their good looks (when blessed with
them), or to improve their appear
ance when they are not good look
ing. Spirits suffer just as much as
appearance from the self poisoning
process of which I have been speak
ing. Have you ever noticed what
fearfully dull and cross beings gen
tlemen become after a hard day’s
deerstalking?- London Truth.
Ainu Women.
Wlierr Ainu, especially Ainu wom-
I en, meet after a separation that has
i lasted some time, they have a pretty
| way of telling each other their, ex
! peri cnees in a sort of chant, and in
! the pleasant sound of tlieir singular-
I ly sweet voices one forgets their
| wild and unkempt looks. The Jap
| asnese women are equally remark
i able for the sweetness of their
j voices, but have the advantage over
I their Ainu sisters of delicate and
dainty ways, the charm of which the
most stolid globe trotter is con
strained to own. If the women of
Ainu-moshiri, as the Ainu call their
land, are the drudges of the men in
their youth and middle age, their op
portunity for revenge comes with
! the lapse of years.
The corses of an angry old woman
excite the utmost terror in the
bravest bear hunter. He flies panic
struck from such names as ehunuma
ash (mangy deer), tontoneppo (bald
pitted boar) or. worst of all, rai-guru
(corpse) or inao-sak-guru (godless
fellow). After death her ghost is
regarded with even deeper dread.—
London Saturday Review.
After tlie Election.
Congress dared not recognize silver,
dared not tackle the tariff, dared not
adopt any measure of relief for the
people until fter the election.”
Whan these men come around asking
you tof.votc for them again, tell them
it is a little uncertain what effect
such a’vote might have, and you do
not desire to act hastily, you will
think about it—after the election.—
Progressive Farmer, Mt. Vernon, 111.
The republican party poises ns the
prohibition party of the state and
have iiowled because the people’s
party did not make prohibition an
issue. Saturday at the republican
county convention a resolution was
offered favoring the enforcement the
prohil itory law but it was rejected.
Why is this? has prohibition become
too much of a load? —Uninn, Salina,
Kansas.
A dav of disaster for any nation
will surely dawn whenever rts society
is divided into two classes—tho unem
ployed rich and the unemployed
poor—the former a handful, tho hitter
a host. —Daniel Webster.
An Important Omission.
The mother’s 'suspicions wore
arons- and, and that night when the
youu man left the house, and tlie
(laugh r came up stairs, she inter
view* (1 her.
“E i/aheth,” she . said sternly,
“didn't 1 hear Mr. Srnipley kissing
yon is the parlor as I canto along tho
hnlir
‘‘N >, mamma,, you didn't, ” respond
ed th • daughter emphatically.
“W"ll, didn’t he try to kiss you?"
persisted tho mother.
“Yes, mamma,” demurely.
Tie- mother spoke triumphantly.
“I knew it.” she said. “Did you
permit him?”
“No, ma’am, I did not. I told him
you Vail always taught me that I
should not permit any yotuig man to
kiss me,”
“That was right, that was right,
my dear,” said tlie mother encour
agingly. “And what did ho ray to
that,”
The girl blushed, but was un
daunted.
“Le asked mo if you had ever told
me 1 was not to kiss a young man.”
>■ mother began to feel that pos
j sibly she had omitted a vital link in
her instructions.
“What did you tell him?” she
asked.
“I said I didn’t remember it, if
you had.”
The girl stopped and the mother
broke out:
“Well, go on, go on.”
“I guess that’s what you heard,
mother, ” and tho daughter waited
for tho storm to burst.—Detroit Free
Press.
Tho Age of tin? Oak.
The extreme limit of the ago of the
j oak is not exactly known, but round
ami living specimens are at least
1,000 years old. Tho tree thrives
best in a deep, tenacious loam with
rocks in it. Stagnant water is one
of its aver, ions. It grows bctt> -r on
a comparatively poor, sandy soil than
on rich ground imperfectly drained.
The trunk, at first inclined to-be ir
regular in shape, straightens at ma
turity into a grand, cylindrical shaft.
The oak does not produce good seed
until it is more than six years old.—
Ohio State Journal.
Two Expensive Hanquots.
Tho costliest meal ever served, ac
cording to history; was a supper
given by iElius Veins, one of the
most lavish of all the Romans of the
latter days, to a dozen guests. The
cost was 0,000 sestertia, which would
amount to $212,600. A celebrated
feast given by Vitcdlius, a Roman
emperor of those days, to his brother
Lucius, cost a little more than $200,-
000. Suetonius says that the ban
quet consisted of 2,000 different
dishes of fish and 7,000 different
fowls, besides other courses.—New
York Sun.
Detecting Plated Coin.
“For plated coin a drop of acid
squirted on the edge where the plat
ing weare most will chew up the base
metal in a hurry.” “What add do
you use?” “For gold coin a mixture
of strong nitric add (ii drams,
muriatic acrid 15 drops and water
5 drams is used. For silver, 24
grains of nitrate of silver and SO
drops of nitric add with 1 ounce of
water. One drop is sufficient. If
the coin is heavily plated we scrape
it a little before putting on tho acid.”
—Springfield Republican.
That the agricultural and laboring
classes of this country me being
ground down by injudicious capital
ists cannot be questioned; that the
cause is due to unwise legislation is
self-ovbhn ; that either old party is
responsible to a greater or loss de
gree is certain: tlmt the political rot
which is daily handed out by the pub-
lie press to the common oj !c can
not be relied upon to give broad and
generous views on this great ques
tion is an incontrovertible truth; and
for a man to pretend that he can vote
intelligently for tlie best interests of
himself and his fellowuinn, wTlmut
first laying aside all politico 1 prejudice
is utterly absurd.—Upland Monitor.
THE GRAND LAMA’S PALACE.
An Klevon Rtorv I'.uiMlnry tlir? Top oT
Which Is Keac/hed by Ltwlclcrs.
Potala, precipitous in many places,
rises within the confines of the outer
city of Lima in the north western
quarter. It is heaped up in the most
fantastic style with halls and storied
temples and monster tombs; but, on
looking up from tlie foot of these
heights, the whole aeries seemed con
joined into one vast structure, sur
mounted by five gold plated rec
tangular domes of great size.
The chief erection is tho P’o-dang
Marpo or “Red palace,” a building
carried up t 6 the height c: clven
i l tcr: •* and winch i.; a- cm!-.-! f:vm
story te .-wry by mean.- of woolen
la-n.lcr- with breadi>..t.dblieul tin
Tins is the central edified around
which the cthe: - s climb and cluster.
The lower stories arc built against
the sheer fac > of tho acclivity.
After passing up a stoop path ave
nued by trees, you arrive at the prin
cipal or eastern doorway of the whole
establishment. Here, first, is along
ball, up which you may ride on pony
back if you choose. The liall is gar
nished on either hand by long rows
of massive prayer cylinders, which,
placed like barrels ou end on well
oiled pivots, can easily be made to
revolve with a touch as you pass
filAng.
Each barrel has within it, wound
compactly on the iron axle pairing
fn.vn top to bottom, iauuuier.vbld
lengths of paper, on which hr.t been
stamped man Jr thousands of times
the well known formula, “Om Muni
Padme Ilian," tho special invocation
to tiro Bodhisattwa Cheririiisi, and
therefore to tlio grand lama, who
visibly impersonates him. At the
end of tho hall are broad stone steps,
which mount to a paved landing,
whore stands an' obelisk. You are
row again in the open air, and two
long flights of-steps, hemmed in by
tho outer walla of other building..
ascend up tho face of the hill to the
ground f loor of the red palace.
Thence the ladder climbing com
mences. Fivo long ladders, one after
another, have to be scaled, passing
up through dark and mysterious
vaults—really vestibules to the neigh
boring buildings—some with-weird
looking passages conducting who
shall know whither? At the top of
tlie fifth bidder things seem brighter,
since now you outer the more hab
itable portion of tho palace, compris
ing suites of rooms, set above set.
On this floor, in an adjoining apart
ment, are the lower limbs of. an ele
phantine image of Jin am pa, the
Buddha-to-come. He is seated on a
platform in this room and his figure
is of sue!?colossal proportion:.; that it
passes up through the floors of the
! two other stories above, this one.
I Altogether tlie image is said to bo
j about seventy feet high. When yon
have reached the third floor of tho
upper portion of the palace you may
walk around and gaze upon the mon
ster head and shoulders of this gilded
Buddha.
All orthodox visitors on their way
up perform solemn eircumtnubula
tion around the legs, tho body an
tlie shoulders respectively, once on
each of the three floors through
which the effigy has boon reared.—
Murray’s Magazine.
Tlie Discovery of the Noodle.
Tho discovery of tho magic-lie
needle was one of the most useful
and remarkable of human discover
ies. The needle, when placed paral
lel to a conductor carrying an elec
tric current, would be deflected from
its position to the right or left, as the
case might be. This discovery ere
ated a great excitement among sci
entists who disbelieved in its power.
It was too simple to bn of value, so
they thought, but scientific minds
began to study into the relationship
between magnetism and electricity,
; and some event so far as to declare
there existed a missing link, and
commenced to investigate, experi
menting silently, that if they tailed
no one should say, “I told you so,’
as they of ton say £cT unfortunate in
vesligators hi modern times. —Boston
Transcript.
An attempt to blackmail om of the
most.successful business rnori of thin
nation, by a threat to pul lish a vol
umiiidus mass of falsehoods concern
ing him, met with this response: “Go
ahead; puWish anything, just so you
say something about me.” He want
ed his name before the public, trust-
SINGLE GORY THREE CENTS;
b"-g loth'' love nf fair play for vindi
cation. '! iic people’s party is kept
before the public by the old party
press, and while it is done in a man
ner that is uncomplimentary, it at
tracts the attention of the people who
have never given our principles a
thought. The advertising, such a-' it
is, will do us more gw and than harm.—
Bolivar (Mo.) World.
AN EXPERIENCE OF ONE MIGHT.
Story of iv Ynumr Fellow Whoso White
Ilsiir Attriirted Attention*
In Albuquerque, N. M., one night
they pointed out a white haired
young fellow and told me liow it
came ahyut that hi-; hair Was white.
He was a gambler by profession
end happened to lte in oho of the
frontier towns at a lime when the
business was getting rather danger
ous. A moral wave had swept over
the place and the authorities were
“running the gamblers in” right and
lott. Thie. than was caught and put
into jail with a com do of horse
tbievea and a vt in! others of Id's own
class.
Death is the penalty for horse
stealing in the c.-.mpn, aridT in this
car-> they c-emed not overparticular
whether some stray sheep got mixed
in with thiews or not. About mid
night the sheriff cut• ed and led one
of the men out. Pretty soon he re
turned with another fellow.
“What did you say the sister’s
name was'?” asked.one. “Well, write
it down. Mohbe she'll want some
thing done with the body."
Then another follow was led out,
and when the sheriff and his assist
ants returned they held another
whispered consultation concerning ’
certain relatives. Then /they tools
another man out, returned aud did
the whispering act, again. And mit
continued. The strain on the fel
lows who were left behind was in
tense. They knew that each man
taken out by the sheriff went to liis
death, and the thought, of who would
be next was enough to drive a man
crazy.
Tlie night wore away and the
young man referred to was the last
to bo taken. He was conducted to a
bridge outside the town, a rope was
placed around his neck and then he
was swung off. Tire vigib-nidled
him up at once, however, and as he
gaspingly recovered a fellow whis
pered in his ear:
“We are going to take a vote on
this business,” he said, “You area
young man, and some of us feel sorry
for you, but'remember, if we let you
go you will have to leave tho town.”
Tho promise wav made, quickly
enough and the man continued,
“Look here, I’ll cut this rope, arid
while we are voting you clear out.”
The job was done, and with his
neck still smarting from the strain
of the rope the young man ran for
the brush. He wandered around in
the chaparral till morning, and in
the early- dawn came to a ravine.
He wandered along this looking for
some water with which to bathe his
wonfids, and on rounding a curvo
beheld a camp tire.
Seated in a row-'betere it wore all
tho men \*ffo bad Ivon ill the jail.
Each had been given the same
cliailce.- Chicago Mail.
Tlio Color of flip Common Clovor.
Red find white clover are introduc
tions from the. Old Wc. kl, though,
unlike buttercups and daisies, they
are welcome rather than con
ch nned the cultivator. They
have followed man so eloii ly that it
is almost impossible now. to say
where was its original native home.
It was not in Ireland, where St. Pat
rick induced tin* Irish king to believe
in the Trinity, and uu oxalis or wood
sorrel must have been the trofoliato
leaf used by the great man to illus
trate the doctrine and convert his
antagonist. When trouble between
nations springs up the clover finds
its great opportunity for foreign
travel.
The American tourisy'ond of using
his eyes will iiogpui int'dar feature
in tho red clover as ho journeys
northwardly or south. lif&’eniusyl
vauia. for instance, the' red- clover
field presents a sherd Iff pale-rose,
with numerous ( uses of whitish flow
ers or clear albinos among them, but
the farther northwardly he pro
gresses the 1 <riglt colors increase.
On Mount Desert island and similar
latitudes the flowers are often deep
erh - on, and pale rose is the rare ex
ception. -Thomas Meehan in l’liilas
(lelphia Ledger.
Tlie Homestead strike, the East
Tennessee strike, tlie Buffalo strike
and tlie Coeur d'Alene strike, all run
ning at once, all being met by bayo
nets and Gatling guns, ore a sorry
comment on the great “happy and
('prosperous American workingmen ”
j of whom McKinley pirated prate- —•
i Pittsburg Kam-aii.